Kentucky state senator claims pedophiles need 'child sex dolls', calls predators 'minor attracted persons'

During a Thursday meeting of the Kentucky Senate Standing Committee on the Judiciary to discuss a bill to make the possession or trafficking of child sex dolls a felony offense, one member of the committee spoke in support of the use of these objects by pedophiles.

"I was completely unfamiliar with child sex dolls, so I had, of course, to Google it last night," State Senator Karen Berg said. "I was scared to put it in my search engine, but I did, and apparently, there is research on the subject, not much."

"But there are what they call MAPs, minor-attracted persons. And the limited amount of research that’s been done on these dolls, guys, suggests that they actually, for people who are attracted to minors, that these dolls actually decrease their proclivity to go out and attack children."

"That it actually gives them a release that makes them less likely to go outside of their home. And what was interesting is the research did not support the same conclusions who were adult attracted using dolls, that did not diminish their proclivity to engage other people."

The comments came as the committee considered House Bill 207. The bill passed the House in February in a 93-0 vote, and the Senate Judiciary Committee passed the bill. It now heads to the Senate for a vote.

The bill makes it a felony to own or sell child sex dolls, defined in the bill as "an anatomically correct or anatomically precise doll, mannequin, or robot that may consist of an entire body, pelvis, or any other body part, with features of, or with features that resemble, those of a minor intended for use in sexual acts."

The bill also criminalizes the use of artificial intelligence to create depictions, whether through computer-generated images or using a real image as the base, of child pornography.